TESTIMONY OF DANIEL SCHRUMPF. .233 



Q. Had those various samples of milk which you discovered had 

 decreased in gravity or changed in gravity, undergone fermentation 

 at the time when you tested them ? A. They had not to the eye or 

 to the test of paper ; they poured exactly as if they were good milk. 



Q. Now how long were they kept before they were re-examined ; 

 how long after they were obtained? A. I think only a day; 

 perhaps a day and a half. 



Q. At what temperature ? A. Below 60 ; they were kept in ice- 

 water, well corked and sealed, that no water should get in. 



DANIEL SCHRUMPF, sworn and examined through the interpreter, 

 testified as follows : 



By Mr. WAEHNER : 



Q. You are the defendant in this case ? A. Yes, sir. 



Q. What is your business now ? A. Milk business. 



Q. How long have you been in that business? A. Seventeen 

 years. 



Q. On the 25th of August last, tell me what took place at your 

 store ? A. A professor, a milk inspector, came in, I do not know 

 his name, and asked for a cup of milk and tested it ; then he showed 

 his authority of his being an officer of the Board of Health and that 

 he intended to inspect the milk ; then he inspected the milk and 

 said the milk was weighing ninety degrees, and that he intended to 

 enter a complaint against me. 



Q. Where was the milk when he tested it with the lactometer? 

 A. The milk was in the ice-box ; he took it from the ice-box ; he 

 took a sample from it. 



Q. Well, what did he do with your sample ? A. He immersed 

 the scale into the sample. 



Q. Into what did he put this sample of milk ? A. In a glass. 



Q. Did he taste the milk at all while it was in the milk can ? A. 

 No, he did not. 



Q. Did he warm or cool the milk when it came out ? A. He did 

 not do anything else but weigh it after he took it from the ice-box. 



Q. Did he insert a thermometer into this glass tube which he 

 had ? A. He had two instruments ; I do not know what they were. 



Q. Did he put them into the glass? A. Yes, sir; he did. 



